Here are issues regarding theta roles that have been raised and need resolution:
1. Instead of referring to Dowty, explain what he said... I [Nizar] guess that means explaining what things like volition, sentience, and existence are.
2. From Keith:
- BUY shares == POS or THM?
- RESELLING to investor == GOAL or BEN?
- entire PP - with the rest in the hands of Czech investors == MOD?
- BUY for five dollars == INSTRUMENT or POS? -- This might need some discussion
- Copular constructions and theta roles e.g. John is happy: John is EXP or PRED? theta grid table is at odds with what we decided to do with copulas at
IL0 level. e.g. John is a linguist. Linguist is head, John argument, so John should get theta role, not linguist. Or are we even going to have annotators
annotate roles in these cases, since then they appear to be arguments of nouns in the syntax?
- the question of theta roles in the procedures manual.
3. From Owen:
- Fix manual (in "want to do X", the role of "do X" still shows up as THM *and* PRO!).
- Figure out how to annotate multiple senses of one verb. (I have argued that, while one theta grid per sense makes sense, from a technical point of view one
theta grid per word is much easier).
- Write clear and concise IL0->IL1 annotation procedure.
Version 1, Wed 28 Jan 2004 10:04:25 [Rebecca]